Really, the history of humanity is not the entire history of the Earth as the world was originally one which belonged to the Great Old Ones, Elder Things, Great Race of Yith, Flying Polyps (their real name is unpronounceable by humans), and a dozen other species which settled on the world long before humanity evolved. It didn't usually WORK mind you but as stated before, the creatures of the Mythos are every bit as screwed by the cold uncaring nature of the universe as humanity-they're just SLIGHTLY tougher than our poor squishy race. The Hyborian Age existed in this reality and other time periods like it where barbarians responded to eldritch horrors by sticking large metal objects into them. The CthulhuArmageddonverse (hereby known as Earth-CA) has always been slightly more formidable than most versions of H.P. A man like myself, with a sword, is a match for any amount of fangs and talons, infernal or terrestrial.' - Conan the Barbarian, The Vale of Lost Women Some find their way to Earth, but when they do they have to take on some earthly form and flesh of some sort. I've heard the wise men of Zamora talk of them. They lurk as thick as fleas outside the belt of light which surrounds this world. 'A devil from the Outer Dark,' he grunted. So, about 6-10 PL in terms of what sort of characters you can do with the 6 being those hardened human survivors who make their way across the land and 10 being a Prototype or Hellsing's Alucard-esque Humanoid Abomination. I also don't see that there's anything wrong with sorcerers, gunslingers, and even perhaps 'touched' Mythos characters putting the screws to those monsters which inhabit this world. Cultists, Deep Ones, ghouls, and many other smaller critters are as much on the low end of the totem pole as humanity. The Wild West elements came from the fact the wasteland is a naturally western-themed sort of place and also a distillation of the elements I liked most about The Dark Tower and The Stand.Īs a Mutants and Masterminds setting, I'm of the mind it has legs as I'm not really of the Lovecraftian bent that humans wouldn't be able to shoot the lesser creatures of the Mythos. You know, if the GOO actually thought they'd been in a contest. It struck me as somewhat unfair to the Great Old Ones they were always losing and that it'd be a good setting for an RPG to have a world where victory had been achieved. I had the idea while playing Fallout's Point Lookout and also remembering the Justice League episode where Hawkgirl and the others managed to put down their version of Old Batwings. They certainly aren't doing well, mind you, and may be on the road to extinction but they've managed to avoid completely degenerating into a bunch of gibbering insane lunatics eating each other. What happens when the Great Old Ones rise and humanity loses as Lovecraft intended? Well, perhaps not quite as Lovecraft intended as this vision of the future states humanity manages to survive in the shadows of the Great Old Ones.

In this case with the book which started my career and took three years of hammering on in order to get just right: CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON.Ĭthulhu Armageddon is a post-apocalypse Weird Western with a fairly basic premise. Just in case people have not gotten completely sick of them, I thought I'd do one more of the 'adapting my books into settings' threads.

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